🇬🇧 When you say the word tarmac... You have just said a Scotsman's name.🏴
— Proudofus.uk (@ProudofusUK) June 13, 2026
Tar, laid over macadam. The macadam is the man.
John Loudon McAdam was born in Ayr in 1756. The Britain he grew up in moved at the speed of mud.
He was not an engineer and never trained as one. He was… pic.twitter.com/pa1Ki0GBht
“Elon Musk is a trillionaire.”
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) June 13, 2026
As a securities law attorney, please allow me to explain how anyone who says this is basically lying to you:
1. The Securities and Exchange Commission has a myriad of laws that prevent founders and other large stockholders of publicly traded…
A welder took a $28 an hour job in 2015 at a company he had never heard of.
— Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) June 12, 2026
On Friday, Juan Hernandez became a millionaire.
He spent ten years building the structures that lifted rockets onto the launch pad. SpaceX paid him partly in stock, the way it paid its cooks,… pic.twitter.com/BgdYV5rqzR
The poorest economies in the world are not achieving economic growth.
— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 12, 2026
The consequence is that progress against the very worst poverty is coming to a halt.
This is one of the worst problems in the world today, but hardly gets any attention. pic.twitter.com/yXVgf3otHu
After the last republic of Florence fell to the Medici in 1530, Michelangelo went into hiding for 3 months.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 13, 2026
Nobody knew where he had dissapeared to until a 6.5 feet / 2 meter wide hiding hole was discovered unde the Medici mausoleum in 1975.
The walls were full of sketches… pic.twitter.com/HsndNKnkTv
The most envious, Marxist, redistributive person in the world isn't the guy busting his hump to frame a house, or the guy grinding out DoorDash...it's the smug guy worth 7 or 8 figures staring at a trillionaire he considers socially beneath him. https://t.co/4NA4w0XCbS
— Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) June 12, 2026
In 1963, New York City committed what one critic called an act of vandalism against its own soul. It tore down the most beautiful building it had ever built, and it has regretted it every day since.
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) June 12, 2026
The building was Pennsylvania Station, and for half a century it was one of the… pic.twitter.com/7x0odJHyu6
A Tour of Paris – US Edition pic.twitter.com/bfddLMecbK
— Vintage Maps (@vintagemapstore) June 13, 2026
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